From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:08:37 -0500
is completely bogus. Without the tlb flush, the system may never update
the accessed bit on a page that is heavily being used.
It's intentional Ben, think about the high cost of the SMP invalidate
when kswapd is just scanning page tables.
Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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